Black Friday in the online world

About midnight last night, the deluge of commercial come-ons, product pitches, and obvious attempts to collect personal information started filling up my junk mail folder. A few of these pitches came from trusted sources and so ended up in my inbox. I guess this approach works enough of the time for everyone to jump on the bandwagon.

I'm not sure that any of the discounts are worth taking on the over-full parking lots and mass of humanity that I'm sure that I'll find at the mal.

I am pondering a visit to the bookstore, however.

To paraphrase a recent credit card commercial, what's in your inbox?